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... original design is a matter of pride . There are lanterns in the shape of big balls ; lanterns in the form of stiff cubes or other geometrical shapes ; lanterns made of paper and others of glass ; lanterns in the form of Chinese pagodas ...
... original design is a matter of pride . There are lanterns in the shape of big balls ; lanterns in the form of stiff cubes or other geometrical shapes ; lanterns made of paper and others of glass ; lanterns in the form of Chinese pagodas ...
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... original form of our dragon - boat festival , the boats be- ing added later , in the coastal sections of Central and South China , replacing the original custom of wading through the water . Ch'ü Yüan's death in the River Yüan was , the ...
... original form of our dragon - boat festival , the boats be- ing added later , in the coastal sections of Central and South China , replacing the original custom of wading through the water . Ch'ü Yüan's death in the River Yüan was , the ...
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... original Chinese story , to which the Koreans have added . the happy ending , illustrating their idea that death and new life belong to the midautumn festival . But when we study the festival more thor- oughly , we find a whole group of ...
... original Chinese story , to which the Koreans have added . the happy ending , illustrating their idea that death and new life belong to the midautumn festival . But when we study the festival more thor- oughly , we find a whole group of ...
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the new years festival 3 | 3 |
the dragonboat festival | 69 |
the midautumn festival | 97 |
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ancestors animals asked beautiful became believe boats body Buddha Buddhist calendar centipede ceremony Ch'ü Chinese Chinese astronomy Chinese calendar cock Confucianism Confucianist custom cycle dance dead death door door gods Double Fifth dragon dragon-boat dress drink dynasty emperor ENSIS famous feast fifteenth day fire ghosts girl give goblin goddess gods groups hare hearth heaven INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES INDIANENSIS Jade Emperor killed lantern festival lanterns lion dance lions live lotus marriage MDCCCXX ET VERITAS midautumn festival Ming dynasty month moon moon cakes mountains nese night official palace peasant play popular rain rice river sacrifice SIGILLUM solstice songs soul South China spirits spring festival stone story streets tale Taoist temple tion told tomb took tree tribes Tung UNIVERSITATIS LUX VERITAS MDCCCXX village wife winter Year's day Yüan